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The INDEPENDENT, May 19, 2005 Page 3 “Without support V.H.S. may for coming out on May 7 and event. Lastly, thanks to all of lose cheerleaders” in your last making Vernonia Shine. We you who care about your town Shall we think more had 100 plus volunteers that enough to come out and make publication. The view expressed in this about tree cutting day. The high school leadership it beautiful. Everyone did a letter were the views of-one in class got kids involved by help- great job and I really hope you dividual and do not represent To the Editor: <n9 paint the grandstands on had a lot of fun while doing it. The recent letters to the Edi the views of the coach or the Friday, May 6. This will be an Thanks to Penny with Jazzer- tor against the recent residen squad as a whole. ongoing project and if anyone cise and Heather with New Day In contrast to the last letter, I tial logging in our small town would like to help them please Massage. That massage felt makes me wonder... wonderful. Remember, your personally would like to ex let me know (503-429-5201). Why don’t we rhapsodize about Thanks to Terry, Gretchen, house, your job, your life and press my thanks to the many a stalk of wheat? Brittney, and Sam Lindauer for your town is what you make of members of the V.H.S. staff The trees give us shelter, the and administration for their organizing the food. Thanks to it...make it a great one. poor wheat we eat! Donna Webb support of cheerleading as they Audeen Wagner and Carolyn Trees and wheat grow from a Vernonia Pride are not paid to do so and have Keasey for helping with food as seed, given extra time and effort to well. Thanks to Katie Poetter A great cleanup job A crop to harvest; they do not for getting the food...that is not Another point of view help us out. bleed. by local volunteers I also would like to thank the an easy task. on VHS cheerleading community and local business I don’t cry out in anguish when I To the Editor: Thanks to the city crew for see a cake, es for their financial support so Vernonia Pride would like to getting out there and working To the Editor: Regarding the letter entitled that we could purchase uni I don’t shed tears when I smell thank all of you hard workers and helping to organize the bread baked. —------------- -— — ] forms last season. I feel the lack of interest in That farmer he chopped them — down, those amber waves of ___ cheer for the 2005-2006 sports light in toasted, buttered bologna sandwiches at grain! By Nancy Burch, Librarian seasons is not due to lack of the end of the day, the recollection of being the No longer will they feel the sun, Vernonia Public Library support from V.H.S. staff or the only girl to race and win riding bare-back in a jun the wind, the rain Thank you to everyone ior rodeo in Colville, Washington, pictures of a community but rather a lack of The animals that lived there too who purchased books dur Cottage Grove “future cowgirl” and a Eugene interest from the V.H.S. stu Where will they go? What will ing the recent “adopt a Oregon National guardsman stationed in Bagh dents themselves. they do? I personally love cheerlead book for the library” en dad. Quite a variety, isn’t it? My favorite is an ar But I’m not sorry those stalks are deavor to add books to the ticle entitled, You’ll Sit Up and Beg for More of ing and feel that you should ghosts library’s collection. All of These Memories, about of course, dogs. It cheer because you want to and I enjoy them now as my morning the books were “adopted” brought to mind our dachshund that dug under a because you love your school toast. with most being chosen logging road and was buried there for a week be and community, not because I sit in my nice, warm, wood house from the bibliography list fore we finally heard his faint bark and dug him you were begged or forced to. If Read my paper and complain and to supplement the upcom- out (with no ill effects except dirt embedded in the students don’t want a grouse ng Summer Reading theme of Dragons, his eyes) and our Labrador mix who must not squad next year that’s their About those whose opinions are Dreams and Daring Deeds. Plans are being fi have liked my pancakes very much because he right. If sometime in the future different from mine nalized for this summer’s programs, which will always buried them...in different places. He there are enough eligible stu And pen these words in a silly ne under the direction of three enthusiastic, cre would take each one off by itself, bury it and dents interested, I will be here, rhyme. ative ladies—Camrin Eyrrick, Linda Johnston come for another to take to a different spot. more than happy to help out. Christi Doyle I’m a logger’s wife and proud to and Orissa Burghard. Activities will take place on Wouldn’t memories like these be great to write be VHS Cheer Coach Wednesdays, beginning June 22 and will include and put together with our new binding machine? And, yes, we get our money from Vernonia going on guests, building and firing catapults, Come on in with your own written memories, those trees. making theme-related costumes, creating and short stories, poems, etc. to be bound and in You can disagree with our choice Vernonia residents riding on a float for the Jamboree parade and be cluded in the library’s collection. of revenue show that they care ing entertained with magic and “magical” experi New acquisitions include several by the writ But that farmer's crop makes ments by Mad Science. Sign-up sheets and ers who recently visited the library, Birdie Etchi money too! To the Community: schedules will be available shortly in the library. son and Patricia Rushford. Both of these ladies Thank you, Vernonians, for The trees come down to make Don’t miss out on these educational, fun-filled live in Washington State, but set most of their participating in the Letter Carri room for a home, activities for youngsters ages 3 and older. novels (romance and mystery) in Oregon. Ms. ers Food Drive May 14, 2005. And I bet before you settled here, The library now has a book binding machine, Rushford also has an entire series of mysteries The total pounds of food col no more to roam the kind that uses plastic spirals to bind pages. for young adults, most of which were obtained lected was 780 pounds. (That There once were trees where your Plans are to encourage youngsters participating for the library. house now sits, beat the 2004 amount by 86 in the various library programs to write and draw Other new acquisitions include The Innocent pounds.) Thanks so much! So think of that before throwing pictures for inclusion in these bound books by Harlan Coben, Lie Still by David Farris, In the your fit. A special thanks to our letter which will remain in the library, and also for tran Company of Liars by David Ellis, A Lotus Grows carriers and to the project coor The crops we harvest will grow scriptions of oral interviews conducted through in the Mud by Goldie Hawn, A Land of Sheltered dinators, Peter O'Leary and back just fine the museum to have this information maintained Promise by Jane Kirkpatrick, Oh My Stars by Kate Laird. A second special It’s the way God planned it since i book form in the library. This machine was pur- i_orna iy u by y u a m c o r Patterson, Lorna Lanavix, Landvik, 4in 4th or of ju July James the beginning of time. thanks to Dave and Rose Mc nased with money donated at the 2004 Silver ¡jeiectabie Mountains by Earlene Fowler, Super Coy and John Frey, food bank I like trees, I really do! sa presented by Vernonia Study Club. stition by Karen Robards, and Cut and Pun by volunteers, who unloaded and Without them I couldn’t write to Many times I like to choose a magazine from Ri<j|ey Pearson. you. sorted the donation. le library’s collection and find an inspiration for --------------------- I don’t mean to offend with pen This food, gathered in our V ernonia P u b lic L ib ra ry : 701 Weed Ave. omething about which to write for this column and ink town, will be disbursed to peo H ours: Mon., Wed., Fri. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; md also to keep patrons aware of the periodi- Just offer up another way to think. ple in the Vernonia area. Tues., Thur. 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. :als to which the library subscribes. Included in Sincerely, Thanks for showing that Ver Sat. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. he June/July issue of Country magazine is an Kaia F. Cota nonia Cares! Preschool Story Time: Mondays, 10:30 irticle with great pictures on the Big Horn Moun- Vernonia Sandy Welch, a.m., when school is in session. ains of Wyoming, a contribution by an Indiana Executive Director Please see page 24 Phone: (503)429-1818 nan as he recalls hay-making time and the de- From page 2 must not give up and say there is nothing we can do. We must join as one voice and find solu- tions to a problem that will not just disappear. In conclusion, I commend all educators and especially Mrs. Hansen and Mrs. Shaw for do- ing a tremendous job with all the students in their classes this year. Liz White Vernonia ri iiïii m the Bookends
